UiPath was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Agentic Software Quality Assurance Platforms, and positioned highest for Ability to Execute.
In our opinion, Ability to Execute reflects what a vendor can deliver today—not simply what it plans to build.
We believe this strength points to what matters for organizations: taking agentic testing from pilot to production. So why does that difference matter now?
Why it matters
Software testing has long been one of the biggest bottlenecks in digital transformation. AI has raised the stakes: development teams now write more code and ship more change than ever, and manual processes, fragmented tools, and legacy systems mean that testing teams simply can't keep pace. Agentic software testing—and autonomous testing at enterprise scale—changes that equation.
Agentic software testing and autonomous testing at scale, defined
Agentic software testing represents a leap in quality assurance (QA): AI-powered agents working alongside humans that can independently analyze, generate, execute, and refine tests across the entire lifecycle.
The result? Testing that keeps up with delivery instead of trailing it—suites that build themselves from real application behavior, repair themselves when an interface shifts, and surface the risks worth a human's attention.
And we’re in the midst of another paradigm shift today: agents are moving beyond assisting with individual tasks toward running more of the testing loop themselves. This is an operating model we call the dark testing factory, which is autonomous testing at enterprise scale, guided by human judgement.
The bottom line
Most testing teams aren’t asking whether agentic testing works anymore—they've seen a demo. The question is what happens when it meets a real release calendar, a regulated environment, and an application landscape nobody fully documented. No organization clears that by adding headcount. It's what pushes testing toward the dark testing factory—autonomous testing at enterprise scale, where agents and automations handle the routine execution and people move up to make the decisions that matter most: what to test, what risk is acceptable, what ships.
Read the full Gartner evaluation of UiPath and the rest of the market.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Agentic Software Quality Assurance Platforms, By Ross Power, Sushant Singhal, C.A. Swan, 6 October 2026
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